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As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
Ann Rinaldi
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Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
Noam Chomsky
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During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
Tom Brokaw
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
Foster Friess
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.


Patricia Schroeder
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The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and Churchill are meeting face to face in this war.
Robert Dallek
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.


Ralph Bunche
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.


Oliver North
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I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Nick Earls
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.


Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
Tom Hanks
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For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
Cathleen Schine
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The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
David Icke
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Europe cannot survive another world war.


Christian Lous Lange
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If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.
Stephen Bayley
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I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
Sander Levin
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
Kofi Annan
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During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
Simon Sinek
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